Titre : | Young people, drug use and the consumption of health |
Auteurs : | E. ETTORRE ; S. MILES |
Type de document : | Chapitre |
Année de publication : | 2002 |
ISBN/ISSN/EAN : | 978-0-415-25948-7 |
Format : | 173-186 |
Note générale : | Charter 10. In: "Consuming health: the commodification of health care", 2002, Hendersen S. & Petersen A. (Eds), London: Routledge. |
Langues: | Anglais |
Discipline : | SHS (Sciences humaines et sociales / Humanities and social sciences) |
Mots-clés : |
Thésaurus mots-clés JEUNE ; SOCIOLOGIE ; ACCES AUX SOINS ; DISPOSITIF DE SOIN ; CONSOMMATION ; MODELE ; CONDUITE A RISQUE |
Résumé : |
Both sociological and popular conceptions of 'youth' tend to portray young people either as 'victims' of social and economic restructuring or as trouble-some rebels liable to succumb to the excesses of drug and alcohol dependency and violence (Miles 2000). Both of these positions constitute gross oversimplifications. Young people are active, creative negotiators of the relationship between structure and agency (see McDonald 1999). This creativity is expressed most clearly in the context of consumption: the socio-cultural arena within which the young are, or at least should be, able to navigate through the uncertainties of social change. The problem with discourses on youth consumption, however, is that these tend to focus on young people as risk-takers (Plant and Plant 1992) or as risky consumers which thereby reinforces a pathological model of youth (Miles 2000). Discussions of young people's health suffer from the same problem (Brannen et al. 1994).
Our chapter illustrates the limitations of this approach to health consumption vis-à-vis drug services which are striking for their failure to account for strategic if not pleasurable aspects of young people's patterns of consumption. We are primarily concerned with young people's consumption of health, drugs and drug services in Britain. We divide our discussion into two main sections. In the first, we focus on the problems inherent in portraying young people both as `victims' and as `consumers'. In section two, we look at a case study of young people as consumers of drugs and drug services. Our main contention, drawn from the work of Griffin (1997), is that young people's lives are all about occupying distinct social spaces in the routes of production, reproduction and consumption, all of which are located in specific gender, sex, class and race contexts. We contend further that in order to have a clear picture of young people's consumption of drugs and drug services, we must understand their lives from this viewpoint. In short, priority needs to be given to the development of a 'youth-sensitive' approach to the young as consumers of these drug services. [Introduction] |
Domaine : | Plusieurs produits / Several products |
Sous-type de document : | Revue de la littérature / Literature review |
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